From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 21 13:17: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D3537B422; Mon, 21 May 2001 13:17:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4LKOn901633; Mon, 21 May 2001 13:24:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200105212024.f4LKOn901633@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mike Smith Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GENERIC kernel hangs at boot (uhci-related) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 May 2001 13:12:21 PDT." <200105212012.f4LKCL901459@mass.dis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 13:24:49 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > The bottom line is this; in your driver, ask for the resources that you > need. If you don't get them, you fail. The PCI bus infrastructure is > being worked on to improve your chances of getting these resources; it's > not something that a driver writer should be worrying about per se. And I should probably have added; the assumptions you can make about the state of your device are very few. There is a *very* good chance that your device will *just* have been powered up, and had the BARs set to something sane. That's it. You should not make any assumptions about setup done by the BIOS, firmware, etc. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message